Word: greatest
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...team football or baseball game. Ever since the days when Harvard men with moustaches and moleskins touched up their nags to get to practice on time, "Mike" has been on hand to keep the field in trim or to guard the gates against inquisitive strangers. He has watched the greatest of Harvard teams and the most mediocre as they charge past into the mist of years...
...detached, most solitary, least wordly men now in public life." Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 70, of Massachusetts, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court- "in his decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man." George Sutherland, 64, of Utah- "the greatest Constitutional lawyer in the Senate."-William Howard Taft. Pierce Butler, 60, of Minnesota, described by onetime opponents as- "ruthless, intolerant, forceful, impatient with all forms of progressive thought." Edward Terry Sanford, 61, of Tennessee, golfer, cinema fan-"I would rather get a year in Judge Sanford's court than...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, father of the present Senator, was the greatest of all the clan. In 1861 he made a speech which is said 'to have kept Delaware from seceding from Union. He was a Senator (1869-85), a Secretary of State and first U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...tourist business of Florida. The Red Cross feels bound to go forward and do the job just the same, and everyone should help. Our officials on the ground report the greatest need since the San Francisco disaster. . , ." Governor Martin announced that he was "amazed" at such a charge...
Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...